Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751735AbdITPOL (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:14:11 -0400 Received: from mx1.gtisc.gatech.edu ([143.215.130.81]:52701 "EHLO mx1.gtisc.gatech.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751581AbdITPOK (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:14:10 -0400 From: Meng Xu To: hch@infradead.org, sathya.prakash@broadcom.com, chaitra.basappa@broadcom.com, suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com, jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: meng.xu@gatech.edu, sanidhya@gatech.edu, taesoo@gatech.edu, Meng Xu Subject: [PATCH] mpt3sas: remove redundant copy_from_user in _ctl_getiocinfo Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:13:51 -0400 Message-Id: <1505920431-13173-1-git-send-email-mengxu.gatech@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 27 Since right after the user copy, we are going to memset(&karg, 0, sizeof(karg)), the copy_from_user is redundant Signed-off-by: Meng Xu --- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c index bdffb69..d448fed 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c @@ -1065,12 +1065,6 @@ _ctl_getiocinfo(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, void __user *arg) { struct mpt3_ioctl_iocinfo karg; - if (copy_from_user(&karg, arg, sizeof(karg))) { - pr_err("failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n", - __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__); - return -EFAULT; - } - dctlprintk(ioc, pr_info(MPT3SAS_FMT "%s: enter\n", ioc->name, __func__)); -- 2.7.4